Mel Ferrer Archives

Blood and Roses (1960)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 2, 2000Lesbian Vampire/Carmilla Adaptation

Roger Vadim conducts a very sofctore adaptation the classic vampire story Carmilla but this seems pallid and bloodless in contrast to the Hammer Films of the same period, not to mention their later adaptations of the same story

Director: Roger Vadim

Actors: Annette Vadim, Mel Ferrer, Elsa Martinelli, Serge Marquand

Category: Horror

2 June 200023 September 2025 by Roog

The Hands of Orlac (1960)

Rating: ★

Sep 21, 2022Possessed Hands

The third film and least version of the classic horror story about a pianist who receives hands transplanted from a murderer and is driven mad believing they are possessing him

Director: Edmond T. Greville

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Christopher Lee, Felix Aylmer, Donald Wolfit, …

Category: Horror

21 September 202216 April 2026 by Roog

The Antichrist (1974)

Rating: ★★

Aug 20, 2014Possession and Exorcism Film

An Italian-made ripoff of The Exorcist. Probably the most lavishly produced of all Exorcist ripoffs, this soon slips into lurid shock theatrics. Star Carla Gravina should get full marks for going beyond the call of duty

Director: Alberto de Martino

Actors: Carla Gravina, Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, Alida Valli, …

Category: Horror

20 August 201424 November 2025 by Roog

The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978)

Rating: ★★

Jun 8, 1999Captain Nemo's Modern Day Adventures

TV mini-series released as a theatrical film in some parts of the world that resurrects Captain Nemo in the present-day. It is Irwin Allen returning to his tv roots where Captain Nemo’s adventures become a blatant attempt to copy Star Wars

Director: Alex March

Actors: Jose Ferrer, Burgess Meredith, Tom Hallick, Burr DeBenning, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 June 199922 January 2023 by Roog

The Great Alligator (1979)

Rating: ★

Jun 20, 2010Giant Alligator

A belated Italian-made attempt to jump aboard the bandwagon and copy Jaws with a giant alligator hunting people on an island. This is mostly a dreary affair

Director: Sergio Martino

Actors: Claudio Cassinelli, Barbara Bach, Mel Ferrer, Richard Johnson, …

Category: Horror

20 June 20107 February 2026 by Roog

The Visitor (1979)

Rating: ★

May 4, 2003Satan is an Alien/Impregnation

Head-scratchingly strange Italian film that seems made as a crosshatch of 1970s Devil Child films and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Makes no sense in terms of story but worth watching for the bizarreness of its imagery

Director: Guilio Paradisi

Actors: Joanne Nail, Lance Henriksen, Glenn Ford, John Huston, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 May 200320 September 2023 by Roog

Nightmare City (1980)

Rating: ★★

Aug 7, 2014Italian Zombie Film

One of the numerous gore-drenched Italian zombie films of the 1980s copying George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. The film is like the kid in class who doesn't have much skill but who throws himself into what he does with wholehearted abandon

Director: Umberto Lenzi

Actors: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Mel Ferrer, Francisco Rabal, …

Category: Horror

7 August 20143 December 2024 by Roog